Tag: Net neutrality

WELCOME to Connected Rights, your hat in the ring of digital rights news and analysis. THANKS TO CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA AND FACEBOOK, the purpose of data protection seems to have finally broken through into the public consciousness this past week. Here are several factors that have made this particular scandal exceptional and potentially game-changing. 1. This is … Continue reading The Facebook scandal and the decentralisation conundrum

WELCOME to Connected Rights, your secret ingredient in the sauce of digital rights news and analysis. NET NEUTRALITY MIGHT BE DOOMED AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL in the US, but states are jumping in to fill the gap left by the FCC's December decision: http://for.tn/2HaGcUt Washington state has become the first to pass full-blown net neutrality legislation, … Continue reading The net neutrality fightback

WELCOME to Connected Rights, your twist in the tale of digital rights news and analysis. UBER HAS DEMONSTRATED PRECISELY WHAT NOT TO DO when a major data breach happens. Yesterday, the company confessed that around a year ago it paid off hackers who had stolen the personal information of 57 million Uber users and drivers around … Continue reading An Uber-bad way to handle a data breach

WELCOME to Connected Rights, your frog in the throat of digital rights news and analysis. DREAMHOST IS CLAIMING VICTORY IN ITS FIGHT AGAINST DONALD TRUMP'S justice department (see http://bit.ly/2wxGtQn). The hosting provider for DisruptJ20.org has received its final court order for information about the site, and it allows DreamHost to redact all identifying information and protect … Continue reading “The government does not have the right to rummage”

WELCOME to Connected Rights, your weekly buzzer in the handshake of digital rights news and analysis. THE BATTLE'S ON for the future of the internet in the US. On July 12, tech firms (such as Amazon and Reddit) and activist groups (from Greenpeace to Access Now) will participate in an "internet-wide day of action to save net … Continue reading The battle for the future of the internet is on

WELCOME to Connected Rights, your weekly stroll down the poorly-lit lanes of digital rights. THE MEDIA NEEDS TO TRACK YOU TO SURVIVE, according to an open letter sent to EU lawmakers by a host of news publishers, including Der Spiegel, Le Monde, the Financial Times and the Guardian: http://bit.ly/2qA3P0W. So what's all this about then? The issue here is the EU's new … Continue reading Privacy vs the news

HELLO and welcome to Connected Rights, a new weekly newsletter about technology and your rights. My name's David Meyer, and I've been reporting on this subject for over a decade now. It only becomes more important with time, and I hope this newsletter will prove useful, entertaining and thought-provoking. Please let me know what you like … Continue reading Whose law is it anyway?

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I’m David Meyer, a tech journalist with more than a decade’s experience writing about technology. I’ve covered many topics in that time, though I’m most interested in the policy decisions and technological breakthroughs that will shape our world. You can find me on Twitter as @superglaze and on Facebook as @davidmeyerwrites.